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nonstate

nonstate

7.2
A person, group, or organization not part of any government
  • noun
  • /ˈnɒnsteɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : actor no estatal
  • The increase was partly the result of managerial decisions to cut workers who were not performing well, but a significant portion of the turnover appeared to be voluntary, as young workers tried out various jobs available in the state sector as well as in the nonstate sector (Hu and Li 1993, 162).
  • nonstate actors
  • nonstate sector

Examples

  • What has become apparent as the twentieth century wanes is that a wide range of territorial communities, with widely varied degrees of independence and interdependence, are accepted into the state system, and when the system is considered too exclusive, many international venues are open to nonstate actors.

    Academic text (1997)
  • The goal of this model is to create a procedure for determining when the need to detain individual nonstate actors ends.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Such a nonstate cannot even develop economically.

    Blog text (9)
  • The so-called nonstate actors in South Asia have long enjoyed the direct or indirect support of the governments of the day and military establishments.

    Academic text (2003)
  • The key features of this new model are that individual nonstate actors may be detained where the government can demonstrate (a) that they fall within the class of persons identified by Congress as the appropriate targets of military force; and (b) that they continue to pose a danger to the United States.

    Academic text (2005)
  • The thorough implementation of the LCS and the institutionalization of collective bargaining in the nonstate sector would be completed by 2000.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Both territorial (e.g., autonomous regions) and nonterritorial nonstate entities are increasingly effective and participatory in formal international decision processes.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Recent work on the critical geopolitics of drugs extends this literature by challenging numerous prevailing drug-war discourses, problematizing the nature and role of the state and nonstate actors, and questioning the role neoliberalism plays in drug-war policies.

    Academic text (2013)
  • According to the timetable, the LCS would be implemented in all kinds of enterprises in two-thirds of China's provinces, and collective bargaining would be instituted experimentally in the nonstate sector by 1995.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Both territorial communities and nonstate actors are vital in international relations today.

Synonyms

5 3.7

A group that works without government to help people in need

is broader, also covering individuals or groups outside government in political contexts

Antonyms

88 3.6

Relating to public bodies that run a country or city

Surface Forms

nonstate singular
nonstates plural

Morphology

nonstate = state (transparent) = non + state

The negative prefix 'non-' attaches to 'state' to indicate an entity that is 'not part of the state', a straightforward derivation.

Etymology

Nonstate is made of non- meaning 'not' and state meaning 'government'. So a nonstate is a person, group, or organization that is not part of any government.